Van Gogh

Today we covered different forms of assessment for art as it can be difficult to mark a student's creativity. I learned a lot about different artists and what techniques they have used to create some of their most famous works. I chose to use Van Gogh on one side of my pastel artwork and Matisse on the other to represent colour blocking. This was a difficult task for me because the pastel was not allowing me to craft perfect lines like I would have liked. I think that in order to improve the activity I would offer a different medium, preferably crayons or pencil crayons as they offer more guidance and can be fixed more easily. I found that the pastels were not suitable for this artwork as they smudged all over the page and it was hard to find a pastel with a finer tip to make a line. Markers would also work better for the Van Gogh side as they can produce the same sized line every time they touch the paper.

I also learned about the difference between cool and warm toned colours and how to tell your students what colours classify as. I found the chart in the classroom to be very beneficial and I would like to have one of these charts for reference when i have my own students.